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Pallas Athena is a c. 1657 [1] oil-on-canvas painting by Rembrandt that belongs to the collection of Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. [ 2 ] A print of Pallas Athene in the 1659 parade for the marriage of Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau to John George II of Anhalt-Dessau is similar in pose and costume to this painting.
The consortium sold several other paintings to other clients, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The sale remained secret until November 4, 1933, when it was reported in The New York Times that several Hermitage paintings, including the Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych by van Eyck, had been purchased by the Metropolitan ...
The idealised, inscrutable character has encouraged various theories about its subject, if the picture is a portrait. Candidates have included Marcjan Aleksander Ogiński from the Polish-Lithuanian Ogiński family, as asserted by the 18th-century owners of the painting; and Jonasz Szlichtyng, Polish Protestant theologian.
Self-Portrait at the Age of 34 is a self-portrait by Rembrandt, dating to 1640 and now in the National Gallery in London. The painting is one of many self-portraits by Rembrandt , in both painting and etching, to show the artist in a fancy costume from the previous century.
The field of Rembrandt studies (i.e. study of Rembrandt's life and work) — as an academic field in its own right with many noted Rembrandt scholars — has been very dynamic and well published since the Dutch Golden Age. The following is a list of notable Rembrandt experts (e.g. connoisseurs and scholars). Filippo Baldinucci; Adam Bartsch ...
It is held by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. One critical analysis of the painting commented on the size disparity between the canvas inside the painting and the actual canvas, saying "Rembrandt's picture is small relative to its subject, rendering something far grander than itself–a painting several times its own size." [1]
“I couldn’t remove a book because it has ideas we don’t like,” says Bette Davis’s character in a “Storm Center,” a 1956 drama about Communism and book banning.
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